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* '''Come, smooth of my slate ....:''' this long footnote is entitled '''THE LETTER''' in Joyce's drafts. In this letter, Issy "describes her youthful, manic, self-centred, flirtatious exuberance; her thoughts of suicide; her relationships with boys and her father; and her thwarted attempts to write and pass herself off as intelligent." (Luca Crispi, ''How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 2007), p. 232) → compare this with the correspondence and relationships between Stella & Vanessa and Jonathan Swift * '''slate:''' a writing slate, like the ones pupils would have used in school in olden times

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